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    The ProBalance line balancing application can improve assembly line efficiency by up to 20%, reduce labor costs by nearly 10%, and help eliminate errors during line deployment. It was designed by industrial engineers to quickly and easily create efficient assembly lines for companies that manufacture complex products with many part and process variations. ProBalance optimizes task assignment to stations and ensures the most efficient line designs, whether for new lines or changes to existing lines. It integrates with Microsoft Excel and allows both automatic and manual balancing methods.

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    The ProBalance line balancing application can improve assembly line efficiency by up to 20%, reduce labor costs by nearly 10%, and help eliminate errors during line deployment. It was designed by industrial engineers to quickly and easily create efficient assembly lines for companies that manufacture complex products with many part and process variations. ProBalance optimizes task assignment to stations and ensures the most efficient line designs, whether for new lines or changes to existing lines. It integrates with Microsoft Excel and allows both automatic and manual balancing methods.

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    The ProBalance line balancing application can improve assembly line efficiency by up to 20%, reduce labor costs by nearly 10%, and help eliminate errors during line deployment. It was designed by industrial engineers to quickly and easily create efficient assembly lines for companies that manufacture complex products with many part and process variations. ProBalance optimizes task assignment to stations and ensures the most efficient line designs, whether for new lines or changes to existing lines. It integrates with Microsoft Excel and allows both automatic and manual balancing methods.

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    ProBalance

    THE PROBALANCE MIXED-MODEL LINE BALANCING


    APPLICATION WILL IMPROVE YOUR LINE
    EFFICIENCY UP TO 20%, REDUCE LABOR BY NEARLY
    10%, AND HELP ELIMINATE DEPLOYMENT ERRORS.
    If you are a manufacturer of complex assemblies involving 100s to 1,000s of parts and processes with an extensive
    portfolio of model and option configurations, then ProBalance is for you. ProBalance was designed by industrial
    engineers to create the most efficient single- and mixed-model assembly lines quickly and easily, while minimizing
    errors often found during deployment. Whether you are designing new assembly lines, adding new products and/or
    product enhancements to existing lines, or changing your product mix and production rate, ProBalance will ensure
    the most efficient designs possible.

    TASKS

    TASKS

    TASKS

    STATION 1

    STATION 2

    STATION 3

    TASKS

    TASKS

    TASKS

    3-STEP PROCESS
    USING PROBALANCE ON YOUR NEXT
    ASSEMBLY LINE CHANGEOVER IS AS
    SIMPLE AS 1, 2, 3.

    1. Begin by creating or importing a spread-

    sheet of sequenced process tasks and their


    associated process times, resource requirements
    and model/option dependencies. This information
    can be imported from Assembly Planner or
    other popular process databases, or even
    authored within ProBalance's spreadsheet
    interface.

    2. Go to the Stations and Resources tabs


    LINE BALANCING
    TASKS

    PARTS

    RESOURCES

    PARTS

    RESOURCES

    TASKS

    RESOURCES

    RESOURCES

    RESOURCES

    RESOURCES

    RESOURCES

    RESOURCES

    PROBALANCE WILL IMPROVE LINE EFFICIENCY AND LAUNCH ACCURACY.


    Increased Line Throughput by 22%
    Reduced labor by 10%
    Cut Assembly Line Operating costs by $50K per month
    Saved over 2 weeks of engineering time per re-balance, and nearly eliminated deployment errors related
    to task, part, and resource placement.
    LINE BALANCING OPTIMIZATION, CHARTING AND REPORTING INTEGRATED WITH MS EXCEL

    If you are currently doing your line-balancing studies in MS Excel, you will appreciate the integrated ProBalance
    method of simultaneously updating individual spreadsheets, including Tasks, Stations, Resources, Operators,
    Precedence, Models, Options, Parts and Part Zones. Whether you use the automatic assignment algorithms or
    manually allocate your tasks and resources, ProBalance's intuitive interface and integrated charting and reporting
    features will make creating and presenting new assembly designs quick, simple and accurate. ProBalance can even
    download your design scenarios to Proplanner's popular Workplace Planner application so that you can automatically
    evaluate Model/Option sequence to the line, calculate station cycle times and diagram operator walkpaths in AutoCAD.

    to define which resources are fixed to what


    stations. Then proceed to the Models and Options
    tabs to define their take rate (probabilities of
    occurrence). Optionally, you can even define task
    groups (those that must move together), or even
    graphically define detailed task precedence.

    3. Now select the Auto Balance option.

    Choose whether you want the application to


    determine the number of stations required to
    reach a fixed TAKT time or if you want it
    compute the required TAKT time for a fixed
    number of stations. ProBalance gives you the
    station assignment graph and task listings.
    Then you can manually adjust your task and
    resource assignments. You will also be able to
    generate your task and station utilization reports
    to help you sell and implement your new design.

    IF YOU HAVE A SPREADSHEET OF


    ASSEMBLY LINE TASKS AND TIME, THEN
    YOU ARE LESS THAN 1 HOUR FROM AN
    EFFICIENT, ACCU RATE AND WELL
    DOCUMENTED ASSEMBLY LINE PLAN .

    Proplanner was founded by Dr. David Sly, a world renowned expert in Process and Plant Engineering systems that
    extend and integrate the capabilities of current applications such as AutoCAD and Excel. Since Dr. Sly invented the first
    CAD-based material flow analysis application 20 years ago (a predecessor to Flow Planner), he has created a suite
    of powerful and integrated applications for Time Estimation, Process Management, Ergonomics Assessment, Line
    Balancing, and Workplace Design.

    INFORMATION: 1-515-296-9914 INFO@PROPLANNER.COM WWW.PROPLANNER.COM

    >

    THE QUICKEST, EASIEST AND MOST ACCURATE WAY TO ASSIGN TASKS TO STATIONS.
    ProBalance consists of powerful automatic optimization algorithms integrated with manual drag-and-drop task assignment
    features combined with intuitive charting and reporting. ProBalance is built around a familiar spreadsheet interface.
    PRO BALANCE

    BASIC VERSION FUNCTIONS:


    -Single Model Balancing

    ADVANCED VERSION FUNCTIONS:


    -Multiple Operators Within a Station
    - Ta s k G r o u p i n g

    -Mixed Model Balancing


    -Resource Constraints

    -Multiple Work Zones Within a Station

    - U s e r - D e f i n e d Wo r k Z o n e s / Tw o - s i d e d L i n e s

    - Ta k e R a t e C a l c u l a t e d f r o m M o d e l / O p t i o n M i x
    - R e p o r t i n g o f R e a s s i g n e d Ta s k s , P a r t s , a n d
    Stations

    -Integration with Workplace/Flow Planner


    -Balancing Station View

    -Ergonomics Factoring

    -ClusteredPrecedence Authoring

    - P a r t s a n d C o n t a i n e r s A s s i g n e d t o Ta s k s
    - G r a p h i c a l I m a g e s f o r P a r t s a n d Ta s k s

    -Auto-improvement for Existing Balance


    - A d d S p a c e P l a n n i n g F o r To o l s a n d P a r t s

    MAINTENANCE PROGRAM:

    -Product Updates & Phone Support

    -Lean Charts & Reporting

    -Email Support

    -Report Customization

    -Purchase or Monthly Subscription

    -Web Training

    -Lean Yamazuki Charts

    - G r a p h i c a l a n d Te x t u a l P r e c e d e n c e A u t h o r i n g
    -Spreadsheet Interface

    -Cut, Copy and Paste Data from MS Excel

    Balance

    Lean Yamazuki Charts

    Precedence

    Violations

    2321 NORTH LOOP DRIVE, SUITE 134 AMES, IA 50010


    INFORMATION: 1-515-296-9914 INFO@PROPLANNER.COM WWW.PROPLANNER.COM

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